About the day » Friday January 2, 1914Calender converter

• Adelvino Antonio Beretta, Teresópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Aagtje Geertruida KEIM, Oost-en West-Souburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1990)
• Adrianus Jacobus Strooper, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1915)
• Betje Suzanna de Harder, Rotterdam
• Anna Antonia Maria Mutsaers, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Carel Albert van der Leeuw, Zutphen († 1992)
• ADRIANA ELISABETH CATHARINA WIJNHORST, 'S-GRAVENHAGE († 1999)
• Arie Vreugdenhil, 's-Gravenzande
• Overvest, Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland († 1914)
• V Bertha Janna van der Stel, Amsterdam († 1984)

• Aaltje Hoeksema (92), Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Varwijk (33), Zeddam, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arend Burger (64), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthoon Halman (60), Oranjewoud (HEE), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Temming (79), Utrecht
• Adriana (1)
• Alida Bontje (75), Roelofarendsveen
• Anna Geertruida van Moorsel (76), Deurne en Liessel, Nederland
• Afke Harms Petter (83), Gem. Menameradiel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana van Es (0), Loon op Zand

• 1905 » Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1909 » Barry Goldwater, American politician, businessman, and author († 1998)
• 1909 » Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author († 2009)
• 1913 » Anna Lee, English-American actress († 2004)
• 1913 » Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist († 1992)
• 1917 » Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer († 2003)
• 1918 » Willi Graf, German physician and activist († 1943)
• 1919 » Beatrice Hicks, American engineer († 1979)
• 1920 » Isaac Asimov, American writer and professor of biochemistry († 1992)
• 1921 » Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player († 2007)

• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
• 1946 » Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician (b. 1870)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Antonius
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
• August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
• August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
• August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
• September 11 » World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
• October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.

The temperature on January 2, 1914 was between -1.5 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.